Word: charged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British still do not plan to abandon diplomatic recognition of Red China, though their chargé d'affaires in Peking has never been received by anyone higher than the second assistant to the Foreign Minister...
Divorced. August A. Busch Jr., 52, hereditary president of Anheuser-Busch Inc. (Budweiser beer) ; by Elizabeth Overton Dozier Busch, 56, who also won a $1,000,000 financial settlement after charg ing him with "general indignities," desertion in 1945; after 18 years of marriage, two children; in St. Louis...
...Background: Entered the U.S. foreign service at 22, was spotted as a bright young man in 1933 and pulled out of the U.S. legation in Riga, Latvia, to help U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt open the first U.S. embassy in Moscow since the Russian Revolution. In 1946, when he was chargé d'affaires in Moscow, his urgent warnings of Russian aggressive intentions so impressed Secretary of State George Marshall that Kennan was picked in 1947 to head a new policy-planning staff. His "policy of firm containment" (first outlined under the pseudonym "X" in Foreign Affairs in 1947) finally...
...flags and bunting, the dredge Manhattan, a $600,000 gift to Siam from the ECA, last week lay alongside a Bangkok wharf. After yellow-robed Buddhist priests chanted prayers, Siam's Premier Phibun Songgram, clad in gleaming white, made a formal speech accepting the dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine, who said quietly...
Close Call. Consider the U.S. position on Formosa after Truman's statement: the senior U.S. representative was Consul General and Chargé d'Affaires Robert Strong, a State Department career man of modest reputation. The senior military representative was an Army lieutenant colonel assisted by a staff of three other officers and barely enough enlisted men to answer phones, drive staff cars. Not one of the military men had the rank or authority to provide the liaison so urgently required with the U.S. Seventh Fleet...